SOUNDIG is an archaeo-acoustic installation. An enormous pipe has been dug up from underground and a scaffolding structure has been set up so that everyone can view it. Sounds heard coming from the pipe are distributed to listening portals throughout the structure, revealing moments from the past and the present.
Presented by Winning Productions, SOUNDIG is made for public spaces.
Presented by Winning Productions, SOUNDIG is made for public spaces.
ALL NEW RECORDINGS FROM LIVE PERFORMANCES OF SOUNDIG IN MONTREAL!!!!!!
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concept sketch of Soundig structure
CONCEPT
The scaffolding structure presents a kind of game, stairs go up and stairs go down, but they do not always connect to each other. Port-holes allow views to hidden places and listening pipes allow access to snippets of sound.
The sounds are all collected from the immediate location: historic moments recorded from the distant and not-so-distant past and field recordings from the present. Distributed through twenty pipes, the public can listen to each sound separately, listed and categorized into groups, as they move through the installation.
STRUCTURE
Like the impossible staircase of Escher’s drawings, the SOUNDIG must be explored to be understood. The public simultaneously become spectator and participant as they simultaneously look out and look in.
The SOUNDS
The gigantic pipe at the centre of the structure is the imaginative starting point for the installation. Recently re-discovered and excavated from beneath the ground, pseudo-archaeologists have examined the pipe using experimental techniques that extract aural residue from the layers of sediment inside.
Archaeaucoustics is a field of study that focuses on sounds from the past and is informed by a various fields of scientific and pseudo-scientific practices.
Historical Archives
The sounds played in SOUNDIG are all legitimate field recordings collected from the past and present, categorized into types and listed throughout the structure.
The SOUNDIG installation team work with historians, sound recordists, archivists, online contributors to collect the material and build up a snapshot of the specific site. The result is a democratic sound-map of the area that seeks to create a collective memory and to encourage imaginative readings of the past.
Rediscovery of the past
Like a hall of mirrors or a ghost-train ride at the fair ground, SOUNDIG creates a fun environment where the public are invited to play, to listen, to contemplate, to investigate and to question.
Our interest in history is seduced by our unique vantage point in the present. We create history by looking at the past in new ways, drawing on science, culture and our imagination to understand those who came before us. SOUNDIG is a history machine that encourages us to listen and look again.
The scaffolding structure presents a kind of game, stairs go up and stairs go down, but they do not always connect to each other. Port-holes allow views to hidden places and listening pipes allow access to snippets of sound.
The sounds are all collected from the immediate location: historic moments recorded from the distant and not-so-distant past and field recordings from the present. Distributed through twenty pipes, the public can listen to each sound separately, listed and categorized into groups, as they move through the installation.
STRUCTURE
Like the impossible staircase of Escher’s drawings, the SOUNDIG must be explored to be understood. The public simultaneously become spectator and participant as they simultaneously look out and look in.
The SOUNDS
The gigantic pipe at the centre of the structure is the imaginative starting point for the installation. Recently re-discovered and excavated from beneath the ground, pseudo-archaeologists have examined the pipe using experimental techniques that extract aural residue from the layers of sediment inside.
Archaeaucoustics is a field of study that focuses on sounds from the past and is informed by a various fields of scientific and pseudo-scientific practices.
Historical Archives
The sounds played in SOUNDIG are all legitimate field recordings collected from the past and present, categorized into types and listed throughout the structure.
The SOUNDIG installation team work with historians, sound recordists, archivists, online contributors to collect the material and build up a snapshot of the specific site. The result is a democratic sound-map of the area that seeks to create a collective memory and to encourage imaginative readings of the past.
Rediscovery of the past
Like a hall of mirrors or a ghost-train ride at the fair ground, SOUNDIG creates a fun environment where the public are invited to play, to listen, to contemplate, to investigate and to question.
Our interest in history is seduced by our unique vantage point in the present. We create history by looking at the past in new ways, drawing on science, culture and our imagination to understand those who came before us. SOUNDIG is a history machine that encourages us to listen and look again.
Video tour
Soundig was originally commissioned by
The EDGE, Aotea Centre, Auckland
The EDGE, Aotea Centre, Auckland
